6:45 PM |
"everyone has at least one secret that would break your heart if you knew about it.
if everyone realized that,
I think there would be a whole lot more compassion and tolerance in this world. "
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I'm tired of all the speculations about the Virginia Massacre.
I just logged onto Youtube to take a look at the videos; and the barrage of insults that people there are directing at each other- it's heartbreaking, really it is...
Tragedies were meant to bring us together.
So just stop, stop your bad-mouthing and your racist remarks and your 'oh that's ad hominem's and shut up, just shut up, just live and love- because inevitably that's all that counts; and that's all that's going to count, because at the next moment you could be on the floor with a bullet in your head.
Who cares if the killer was Korean? Who cares if he was Asian?
... In fact, so what if the killer happened to be the president of one of the world's superpowers?
I'd say it wouldn't make a difference.
Because at the heart of all the hatred-- it has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with race, or religion, or whatever.
Because at the heart of all the hatred was a little boy lonely and misunderstood and unaccepted.
And that little boy grew up to be a bigger boy, and all of that hurt boiled into a deep, fatal anger.
Nobody has the right to take another's life.
Nobody has the right to take their life.
Nobody has the right to point fingers and accuse anyone of anything- because, honestly, we've messed up this world and we're not doing anything to try and fix it, are we?
So news of Anna Nicole Smith's death gets splashed all over the front page; blaring headlines, technicolour pictures, quotes, the works. Oh, so celebrities are becoming celebri-twigs...gosh, breaking news- I know, let's splash it all over the cover page today...bones, ribcage marks and all!
...But news of the latest ozone depletion? ...Or the latest death toll in Iraq?
Yeah, that'd be the tiny fifty-word paragraph at the last page of the newspaper.
Good luck finding it.
So here. In a nutshell, this is what's wrong with our world today.
1. So one celebrity dies of another overdosage. WHOAA. Major world grieving.
... So a hundred more children die in Iraq. ...So who cares, right? It's not like these things don't happen EVERY DAY.
2. If the definition for 'beautiful' becomes any thinner; nobody will be able to fit.
3. 'Fake' has, apparently, replaced D&G's spring range as the new trend. And it looks like almost everyone's in style.
4. We are shoving the children of tomorrow into a Holocaust gas chamber. We are suffocating ourselves and we are suffocating them, and nobody seems to be trying to stop it.
5. We are screaming our insecurities but muttering our apologies. We are yelling out the "I hate me"s and "if only"'s, but we are choking back the "thankyou, I love you"s and the "you are beautiful"s.
6. We are abusing our human rights by not living, laughing, and loving.